Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer in Sweden

Summary

The company is looking for a remote developer to collaborate on projects related to Tempo, an open source distributed tracing backend used by prominent global organizations. The candidate will be responsible for delivering new features, leading projects, designing and maintaining systems, and expanding their skillset. Requirements include solid experience with at least one programming language, project delivery experience, and cloud or systems engineering experience.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
• Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
• Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems
• Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives
• Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
• Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems or a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code